First, a grumble.
Ever since freshmen orientation I've felt like my mind has been regressing, and soon I will have the brainpower of a single-celled organism, and earlier I would be asking a professor to give me an evolution chart to track my progression through time (he could've at least typed it).
The point is, I ask all freshmen who didn't attend to thank their lucky stars.
Actually, the real reason why my mind is regressing is because I hit a snag on my short prose project. So I'm putting it on hold, and I probably won't get back at it until sometime later in the fall.
The highlight of the orientation was the game Sixty-four Squares in which you embark on a spiritual journey through an array of 8.5x11 sheets of paper. The players line up and the first person proceeds to step on any square in the first row and presses on until he/she hits a "road block." Then that person goes back in line and the second player attempts to follow that route or try a different one. Basically the premise is to work off of the results of the last attempt and thus everyone acts as one (a la 300) to press on to the end of the array. It was a savage labyrinth of adventure and treachery.
That was sarcasm. This "Spiritual Journey" was supposedly a metaphor of your journey through high school. Here's my interpretation:
I am a big fan of Tolstoy's philosophy, and it is prominent in War and Peace that his idea of happiness is to live not for yourself but for others. I think this is also clear in the game, since your actions are really for the benefit of the other players in line. Also, the group of players can't work against each other but must act as a single body much like how there are competitions within the freshmen body, but in the long run it is their struggle as one through school.
It makes sense, but of course our "Link Leader" people had to ruin it all by associating the game with a shitty anecdote about going not caring about academics but then pulling his/herself together and succeeding.
...Lame.
Ever since freshmen orientation I've felt like my mind has been regressing, and soon I will have the brainpower of a single-celled organism, and earlier I would be asking a professor to give me an evolution chart to track my progression through time (he could've at least typed it).
The point is, I ask all freshmen who didn't attend to thank their lucky stars.
Actually, the real reason why my mind is regressing is because I hit a snag on my short prose project. So I'm putting it on hold, and I probably won't get back at it until sometime later in the fall.
The highlight of the orientation was the game Sixty-four Squares in which you embark on a spiritual journey through an array of 8.5x11 sheets of paper. The players line up and the first person proceeds to step on any square in the first row and presses on until he/she hits a "road block." Then that person goes back in line and the second player attempts to follow that route or try a different one. Basically the premise is to work off of the results of the last attempt and thus everyone acts as one (a la 300) to press on to the end of the array. It was a savage labyrinth of adventure and treachery.
That was sarcasm. This "Spiritual Journey" was supposedly a metaphor of your journey through high school. Here's my interpretation:
I am a big fan of Tolstoy's philosophy, and it is prominent in War and Peace that his idea of happiness is to live not for yourself but for others. I think this is also clear in the game, since your actions are really for the benefit of the other players in line. Also, the group of players can't work against each other but must act as a single body much like how there are competitions within the freshmen body, but in the long run it is their struggle as one through school.
It makes sense, but of course our "Link Leader" people had to ruin it all by associating the game with a shitty anecdote about going not caring about academics but then pulling his/herself together and succeeding.
...Lame.
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